Murder Ballads Old and New (e-bog) af Jones, Steven L
Jones, Steven L (forfatter)

Murder Ballads Old and New e-bog

181,00 DKK (inkl. moms 226,25 DKK)
Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and multiple styles, including punk, post-punk, alt-country, and folk. The book is a graveyard stroll past tombs both well-kept and half-hidden. Murder...
E-bog 181,00 DKK
Forfattere Jones, Steven L (forfatter)
Forlag Feral House
Udgivet 12 september 2023
Genrer Music
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781627311359
Murder Ballads Old & New: A Dark and Bloody Record is an exploration of an age-old topic our human need to document the horrors of the world around us. The murder ballad, here expanded to include songs about traumatic loss in modern variants and multiple styles, including punk, post-punk, alt-country, and folk. The book is a graveyard stroll past tombs both well-kept and half-hidden. Murder Ballads Old & New excavates facts about killers, victims, and the folkloric storytellers who disseminated their tales in song.Author Steven L. Jones focuses the tragic ballad as an act of remembering and a soul-reckoning with the ineffable. Songs examined range from obscure tunes from the founding days of the United States to familiar canonical songs learned in schoolrooms and honkytonks. Jones tackles each song in a manner thats equal parts musicological, psychosocial, and genealogical as he uncovers stories that reveal larger contexts and maps the lineages of songs and themes, forebears, and ancestors.Murder Ballads Old & New includes a wide range of songs and performers from the relatively unknown (Boiled in Lead, Freakons, Nelstones Hawaiians) to the ironically famous (Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth). Highlights include tales of Muddy Waters guitar sideman Pat Hare, whose incendiary blues boast Im Gonna Murder My Baby proved grimly prophetic. And honky-tonk pioneer Eddie Noack, whose morbid stab at late-career rebirth, Psycho, couldnt match the bottomless tragedy of his own life. As well as Depression-era holdup man Pretty Boy Floyd, Schuberts mythical Erlknig, and the Manson Family.Murder Ballads Old & Newis a compelling delve into the perennial American fascination with True Crime. Includes archival and historical black & white images.